Next Tuesday, the state’s new concealed-carry law goes into effect. Thursday afternoon, Republican Senator Mike Ellis of Neenah said he was opposed to allowing concealed weapons to be carried onto the Senate Floor. Then he changed his statement, a bit.
Here’s how Chanel 11 TV in Green Bay reported it on its website:
“Senate President Mike Ellis initially told reporters on Thursday Senate Republicans planned to ban weapons in the Senate galleries and on the chamber floor during debates. But Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, a Juneau Republican, said the plan was still under discussion.
Now Ellis says he's spoken with Fitzgerald and was told the plan was to allow guns on the floor but not in the chamber's galleries, which means spectators would not be allowed to carry.”
Another example of lawmakers making laws which they really don’t want to apply to themselves, or their workplace.
What are you talking about? The lawmakers are allowing guns on the floor, that means the people that work there can protect themselves from the bucket banging morons in the gallery. If you are so enamored of these cockroaches who presently are being arrested for disrupting floor business, I suggest you bail them out and move in with them in whatever filthy OWS encampment they return to.
ReplyDeleteClemster, I feel your pain...and anger....but the point of this brief post is that once again, our politicians have made a law which they don't really want to apply to themselves or their workplace. Nine states allow guns in their state capitol building right now, and later today we should know what they do here (despite the assertion in your second sentence above, we do NOT yet know what they'll rule).
ReplyDeleteI have no desire to bail out the bucket-banging morons; they're misguided at best and criminally stupid at worst.
I think your anger is clouding your ability to discern the content and context of this post.
clemster wrote ... "The lawmakers are allowing guns on the floor, that means the people that work there can protect themselves from the bucket banging morons in the gallery."
ReplyDeleteSenators and their staff on the floor of the Legislature, shooting into the gallery at people armed with buckets? That would be quite a scene. It would surely cement Wisconsin's new lunatic image as it continues to descend into legislative madness.
And you laugh when I post about "Ruling Class"....
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